9-letter words containing y, p, s
- sky pilot — a member of the clergy, especially a chaplain of the armed forces.
- sky-pilot — a member of the clergy, especially a chaplain of the armed forces.
- slaphappy — severely befuddled; punch-drunk: a slaphappy boxer.
- snipe fly — any of various predatory dipterous flies of the family Leptidae (or Rhagionidae), such as Rhagio scolopacea of Europe, having an elongated body and long legs
- soapberry — the fruit of any of certain tropical or subtropical trees of the genus Sapindus, especially S. saponaria, used as a substitute for soap.
- soft copy — computer output displayed on the screen of a VDT (opposed to hard copy).
- sophistry — a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
- spacially — spatial.
- spagyrist — an alchemist
- spar buoy — a buoy resembling a vertical log
- sparingly — economical (often followed by in or of).
- sparsedly — in a scattered manner
- spatially — of or relating to space.
- speakeasy — a saloon or nightclub selling alcoholic beverages illegally, especially during Prohibition.
- specially — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
- specialty — a special or distinctive quality, mark, state, or condition.
- speechify — to make a speech or speeches; harangue.
- speechway — a pattern, style, or feature of spoken language shared by the people of a particular group or area.
- sphygmoid — resembling the pulse; pulselike.
- spinosity — the condition of being spinose
- spiny rat — any of various ratlike rodents of the genus Echimys, inhabiting forests of Central and South America, most having bristly fur.
- spirality — the spiral nature of a curve
- spirogyra — a widely distributed filamentous freshwater green alga of the genus Spirogyra.
- splayfoot — a broad, flat foot, especially one turned outward.
- splintery — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- splodgily — in a splodgy manner
- spluttery — tending to splutter: spluttery fire sparks.
- spondylo- — vertebra
- spongefly — any of several insects of the family Sisyridae, the aquatic larvae of which feed on freshwater sponges.
- spoonways — like spoons, esp by fitting together in the way that spoons do
- sporocyst — a walled body resulting from the multiple division of a sporozoan, which produces one or more sporozoites.
- sporocyte — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- sporogeny — the process of spore formation in plants and animals
- sporogony — (in certain sporozoans) the multiple fission of an encysted zygote or oocyte, resulting in the formation of sporozoites.
- spray can — a small can whose contents are in aerosol form. Compare aerosol bomb.
- spray gun — a device consisting of a container from which paint or other liquid is sprayed through a nozzle by air pressure from a pump.
- sprightly — animated or vivacious; lively.
- spun yarn — yarn produced by spinning fibers into a continuous strand.
- spy plane — an aircraft used to carry out surveillance of an enemy country or military formations from a high altitude
- spymaster — an espionage agent who directs a network of subordinate agents.
- staphylo- — uvula
- stenotype — a keyboard machine resembling a typewriter, used in a system of phonetic shorthand.
- stenotypy — shorthand in which alphabetic letters or types are used to produce shortened forms of words or groups of words.
- stony pit — a disease of pears, caused by a virus and characterized by deformed, pitted fruit.
- stupidity — the state, quality, or fact of being stupid.
- stylopize — (of a stylops) to parasitize (a host)
- subdeputy — an assistant to a deputy
- subphylum — a category of related classes within a phylum.
- sulphuryl — of, consisting of, or containing the divalent group, =SO2
- sumptuary — pertaining to, dealing with, or regulating expense or expenditure.